A nice reasonably sunny day out in Oxfordshire, adding a few more ticks to my year lists of butterflies and birds. I got to Farmoor's reservoir at about 1030, and I spent a couple of hours there. Whilst walking along the footpath in the nature reserve, someone offered to show me a where a lesser whitethroat was singing, which was several hundred metres further along. However, hearing a few notes of the song, it did not carry on and we could not locate it. I decided not to go into the hide itself, as time was getting on, but now wished I had asI see a garganey was reported!! Oh well...! After picnicking in the car, I drove round to Rushy Common, and watched from the hide for a while, a lot of the usual birds around, although nothing new. Orange tip butterflies also in abundance today, also brimstone, speckled wood, green veined white, comma, small tortoisehshell.
Highlights from today were yellow wagtail, red crested pochard, common tern, black cap, willow warbler, chiffchaff, swallow, reed bunting and common sandpiper (Farmoor) red crested pochard, oyster catcher, greylag and canada geese, lapwing, sand martin, teal, gadwall, lesser black backed gull. (Rushy)
red crested pochards
yellow wagtail
speckled wood
green veined white
common tern and blackheaded gulls
female orange tip
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